The Lord Heard Their Cry 😢 Samson: Don’t ❌Brag, Pray 🙏 

The Lord Heard Their Cry 😢 Samson: Don’t ❌Brag, Pray 🙏 

By Pastor and Mrs Chifamba

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Judges 15:14-16

And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands. 15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith. 16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men. 

SAMSON COMPOSED A POEM TO GLORIFY HIMSELF NOT GOD WHOSE SPIRIT HAD GIVEN HIM THE VICTORY.

1 Corinthians 4:7

For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 

Psalm 115:1

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. 

GOD ABASES THE PROUD 

Obadiah 1:3-4

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? 4Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD. 

Matthew 23:12

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

WHEN SAMSON WAS HUMBLED BY THIRST, HE CRIED UNTO THE LORD AND HE GAVE CREDIT TO THE LORD FOR THE VICTORY‼️THE LORD ANSWERED HIS CRY

Judges 15:18-20

And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised? 19But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day. 20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

SAMSON GAVE THE PLACE A NEW NAME, EN-HAKKORE, WHICH MEANS “FOUNTAIN OF HIM THAT CALLED OR PRAYED” (Hitchcock's Bible Names). WHENEVER HE PASSED THAT WAY OR HEARD PEOPLE MENTION THE NAME IT REMINDED HIM OF THE GOODNESS OF A PRAYER HEARING GOD. OUR GREATEST DANGER ⚠️ IS TO FORGET OUR ANSWERED PRAYERS.

The things we ourselves have experienced of the blessings of God through His gracious promises we may hang in memory’s halls, and whether rich or poor, learned or illiterate, we may look and may consider these tokens of God’s love. Every token of God’s care and goodness and mercy should be hung as imperishable mementos in memory’s halls. God would have His love, His promises, written upon the tablets of the mind. Guard the precious revealings of God that not a letter shall become obliterated or dimmed. – {Our Father Cares p.135.2}

WE NEED TO CONSTANTLY DRAWBACK THE CURTAIN OF MEMORY TO SEE GOD’S  MIGHTY ACTS IN OUR PAST HISTORY TO GET CONFIDENCE FOR TOMORROW’S TRIALS 

We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way theLord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.  – {Last Day Events p. 72.1}

Deuteronomy 5 15

And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Isaiah 51:10-11 ESV

”Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over? And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.“